Joseph Schmitz

The last time a federal court struck down an Act of Congress for violating the Origination Clause was 100 years ago in Hubbard v. Lowe. That judicial opinion began, “That an unconstitutional statute is not a law at all is a proposition no longer open to discussion.”

A federal appellate ruling last Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit declared that an Origination Clause challenge to the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, is so important an issue that it may only be raised by a plaintiff who is personally affected.

The leaders in Congress should reject political correctness and, if and whenever Congress grants further war powers to the current President, Congress should identify not only the Islamic State terrorists, but also the Muslim Brotherhood as among our enemies, foreign and domestic.

If I were HHS inspector general, I would investigate and hold accountable whomever within HHS was responsible for formulating the fraudulent assertion that the court upheld the entire “health care law.”